Consulting AI Developer

Oracle; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 102,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) Savings and Investment Plan

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Paid sick leave

Parental leave

Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Oracle in Reston, Virginia seeks a seasoned program leader to drive integrated execution across cloud, data, AI engineering, security, and customer adoption for government clients. You will define use cases with sponsors, set phased delivery plans, and manage schedules and budgets across multiple workstreams.

You will coordinate Oracle and partner teams, ensure data access and AI readiness, oversee OCI-based platforms, and report on outcomes and adoption to executives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience managing complex IT, analytics, or advanced technology programs.
• Demonstrated experience managing AI/ML, data, or advanced analytics programs for defense or other federal customers.
• Understanding of the AI/ML lifecycle, including data preparation, model development, evaluation, deployment, inference, and ongoing monitoring.
• Experience managing cloud delivery programs, preferably involving OCI or comparable platforms, and coordinating security and operational dependencies.
• Proven ability to manage budgets, schedules, risks, and multi-vendor teams in regulated environments using phased or Agile delivery approaches.
• Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills, including executive communication and resolution of competing delivery priorities.

Responsibilities

• Work with agency sponsors to define use cases, mission outcomes, program scope, success measures, and acceptance criteria before committing delivery milestones.
• Establish phased delivery plans for discovery, minimum viable products, pilots, operational evaluations, and production rollout; maintain dependencies and readiness criteria.
• Manage program schedules, budgets, staffing, deliverables, and risks across multiple workstreams; elevate decisions and scope changes through agreed governance.
• Coordinate Oracle teams, government stakeholders, systems integrators, and technology partners, with clear ownership of commitments and issue resolution.
• Coordinate data access, quality, stewardship, and integration activities so AI teams have approved, usable data and documented dependencies.
• Oversee delivery of OCI-based AI platforms, model repositories, analytics, and approved multi-cloud integrations; align technical choices with the target environment.
• Plan evaluation and operational readiness with technical leads, covering model quality, security, privacy, human oversight, monitoring, and AI risk controls.
• For edge AI assignments, coordinate deployment and evaluation against connectivity, latency, size, weight, power, and degraded-environment constraints.
• Integrate authorization activities, test evidence, customer approvals, training, and support plans into the delivery schedule; manage go-live and operational handoff.
• Provide executive reporting on outcomes, financial performance, risks, dependencies, and required decisions; track adoption and benefits after release.

Skills

Program management

AI/ML programs

Cloud delivery

Budget & risk management

Stakeholder leadership

Agile delivery

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, or related field

Tools

OCI

Job description

Job Description

This role is accountable for integrated program execution across cloud, data, AI engineering, security, and customer adoption. Programs may include enterprise automation, mission analytics, generative AI, or edge AI, with scope shaped by each agency’s operational needs. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is the primary delivery platform, with other government-approved environments integrated where required.

Job Description

This role is accountable for integrated program execution across cloud, data, AI engineering, security, and customer adoption. Programs may include enterprise automation, mission analytics, generative AI, or edge AI, with scope shaped by each agency’s operational needs. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is the primary delivery platform, with other government-approved environments integrated where required.

Responsibilities

• Work with agency sponsors to define use cases, mission outcomes, program scope, success measures, and acceptance criteria before committing delivery milestones.
• Establish phased delivery plans for discovery, minimum viable products, pilots, operational evaluations, and production rollout; maintain dependencies and readiness criteria.
• Manage program schedules, budgets, staffing, deliverables, and risks across multiple workstreams; elevate decisions and scope changes through agreed governance.
• Coordinate Oracle teams, government stakeholders, systems integrators, and technology partners, with clear ownership of commitments and issue resolution.
• Coordinate data access, quality, stewardship, and integration activities so AI teams have approved, usable data and documented dependencies.
• Oversee delivery of OCI-based AI platforms, model repositories, analytics, and approved multi-cloud integrations; align technical choices with the target environment.
• Plan evaluation and operational readiness with technical leads, covering model quality, security, privacy, human oversight, monitoring, and AI risk controls.
• For edge AI assignments, coordinate deployment and evaluation against connectivity, latency, size, weight, power, and degraded-environment constraints.
• Integrate authorization activities, test evidence, customer approvals, training, and support plans into the delivery schedule; manage go-live and operational handoff.
• Provide executive reporting on outcomes, financial performance, risks, dependencies, and required decisions; track adoption and benefits after release.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience managing complex IT, analytics, or advanced technology programs.
• Demonstrated experience managing AI/ML, data, or advanced analytics programs for defense or other federal customers.
• Understanding of the AI/ML lifecycle, including data preparation, model development, evaluation, deployment, inference, and ongoing monitoring.
• Experience managing cloud delivery programs, preferably involving OCI or comparable platforms, and coordinating security and operational dependencies.
• Proven ability to manage budgets, schedules, risks, and multi-vendor teams in regulated environments using phased or Agile delivery approaches.
• Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills, including executive communication and resolution of competing delivery priorities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience moving AI pilots into production, including generative AI, retrieval-augmented generation, AI agents, or advanced analytics.
• Experience with Federal Civilian enterprise or mission programs, defense command and control modernization, or tactical edge AI delivery.
• Familiarity with responsible AI practices, model evaluation, MLOps, data governance, and federal security authorization processes.
• Understanding of AI infrastructure needs, including GPU compute, high-performance networking, workload portability, and constrained edge deployments.
• Experience with an OEM or systems integrator delivering federal programs; PMP, PgMP, Agile, or relevant AI/ML certifications.

Citizenship And Access Requirements

US citizenship is required. An active Secret clearance is required for cleared DoW assignments. Federal Civilian and other assignments are subject to the contract’s clearance, suitability, Public Trust, and system-access requirements.

Qualifications

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $102,300 - $209,500 per year. May be eligible for bonus and equity.
Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short term disability and long term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
• Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
• 11 paid holidays
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.

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